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Zoom is available to anyone with a valid Northwestern NetID, and its use is intended for the purpose of conducting University-related activities. To get an account and begin using it immediately, visit the Zoom login page, sign in with your NetID and password, and authenticate using Duo MFA. An account is provisioned automatically upon first login.
OneDrive offers secure, cloud-based storage that lets you seamlessly collaborate and access files from anywhere in the world, at any time.
Northwestern’s learning management system, Canvas, allows Northwestern instructors to deliver course materials, manage grades, and create learning activities and allows students to submit assignments and tests and view grades.
NUworkspace offers users a virtual Windows desktop service that provides access to a suite of many software applications to faculty, students, and staff, including access to software packages that may not be readily available on their desktop/laptop computers.
Northwestern has agreements with Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft Azure, to provide discounted cloud hosting options for Northwestern faculty and staff.
The Graduate Student Progress (GSP) allows programs to track graduate student progress and view many elements of graduate student activity in one place.
Consultations are available for a broad range of data science, AI, and statistical methods - from machine learning and large language models to data analysis and reproducibility.
The Northwestern Public Virtual Private Network (VPN) allows users with Northwestern NetIDs to access University network resources as if they were directly connected to the Northwestern network.Virtual Private Network (VPN) establishes a "secure tunnel" for your computer on the Northwestern network. It provides strong encryption, enables authenticated access to the Northwestern network from external and untrusted environments, and proxies your network traffic so it appears to originate from within the Northwestern network.
The Northwestern Data Center is the centerpiece of hosting services for shared and specialized research clusters with IT workloads remaining on-campus. To meet the rigorous needs a dedicated team of IT professionals provide quality core data center services for a secure and reliable enterprise-grade data center combined with mission-critical facility management, 24/7 operations monitoring and support, and sustainability.
Service monitoring at Northwestern consists of several “opt-in” products and notification tools that provide application and functional support staff the ability to monitor the performance and health of University applications and respond to events or issues associated with them.
CAESAR is Northwestern’s system of record for student data. Students, faculty, advisers, parents, guardians, and staff use CAESAR to manage classes and grades, pay bills, view financial aid, process admissions, and maintain demographic data.
SharePoint is an online content and document management tool available for students, faculty, and staff to create web sites and manage file libraries.
Microsoft Teams is a secure, Cloud-based chat and group collaborative workspace that seamlessly integrates with other Microsoft 365 applications, including Exchange, OneDrive, and SharePoint.
Hands-on Canvas workshops and consultations are offered on various topics for all levels.
Urgent assistance or emergency AV support in supported rooms is available by calling 847-467-7666 (7-ROOM from the classroom telephone).
EndNote is a software program designed to store and manipulate bibliographic information.
This service includes Mudd Libraries Video Production Studio.
Northwestern provides domain name services for its IP address space as well as DHCP and static address management. These services can be managed by Northwestern IT or they can be delegated out to local IT staff in some instances.
Northwestern University's agreement with Adobe offers the full Adobe Creative Cloud software suite for use by eligible faculty and staff.
RDSS provides secure on-premise data storage for researchers.
Northwestern provides virtual data center service via NUCloud, the University’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) environment via a fee-based model that requires a two-year commitment. This offering allows administrators to manage virtual servers at the hypervisor level.
NUFinancials is the centerpiece of the University’s financial management systems. It supports the accounting and budgeting functions that feed the University’s general ledger, and works with related reporting, facilities management, purchasing, sponsored research, financial forecasting, and annual budgeting systems.